Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30259
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
156
Points per Page
0.025641
Description
With his older brother dead, his best friend moved away, and his father busy trying to save the family's farm in Pennsylvania, eleven-year-old Nathan needs a friend, but can he find one among the immigrants who have come to work in the new coal mines?